Starting with the Nehalam series, Intel processors feature the Streaming SIMD
Extensions instruction set which provide a hardware-accelerated version of
the CRC32 algorithm (Castagnoli variant). This library uses the Intel SSE 4.2
instruction set to provide a fast CRC-32 algorithm.

The tests were run on a Macbook Air running an Intel Core i7 processor, with 8GB
of RAM and used buffers instead of strings to prevent having items on the V8
heap that might cause the garbage collector to fire frequently and interfere
with the test run-times.